Kettle-holder



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D. H. WILLIAMS.

Kettle Holdbr.

No. 237,151. v Pat ented F eb. 1,1881.

WITH-388% 1 INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

N. PUERS, FROTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WAUHIIOTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEO DAVID E. WILLIAMS, OF EAGLEPORT, OHIO.

KETTLE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,151, dated February 1, 1881.

Application filed June 12, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID E. WILLIAMS, of Eagleport, in the county of Morgan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Kettle-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device for supporting kettles and other kitchen utensils of difi'erent sizes over a fire.

Figure 1 is a plan of the reverse of the device. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the larger fiat ring of the holder, provided with vertical dovetailed sockets a a in its periphery, into which sockets a a, the legs B B are entered from below, their tops being correspondingly beveled for that purpose.

0 is a smaller ring, made to fit upon the ring A, for the purpose of decreasing the opening in said ring A, and this ring 0 is provided with downward-projecting studs 12 b, that engage against the inner edge of the ring A, and serve to hold the ring 0 in place. Still smaller rings, of the same des'ign, may be superimposed one upon the other, in the same manner as are rings 0 A, in order to further decrease the opening D, in which the kettle or other vessel is to be placed. The rings 0 are beveled about one and a half inch deep on the inside, so that the kettle may set down in the rings, and

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extend about two to three inches below them, to give a firm seat and afford an exposure to the fire of a suitable surface.

This device is especially designed for outdoor use, for camping out, for lumber and sugar camps, 850. It will hold the kettle or other vessel firmly over the (ire, will not bruise it, and will protect the sides of the vessel from the flames by the width of the rings permitting the heat to be applied only to the bottom of the vessel. For convenience of transportation, the legs B B and rings A (loan be taken apart and be packed in small space.

Iam aware that legs fitted in dovetailed sockets areold; also, th at two rings have been bolted or riveted to legs and a ring suspended to form a bottom; also, that a legged ring has been provided with acup having lateral lugs; also, that a number of rings have been fitted within one another to form the cover of a furnace; but none of these would answer to hold kettles of varying size, as mine does; hence,

What I claim as new is- As a new article of manufacture, a holder for kettles of various sizes, consisting of a legged ring and one or more rings, 0, inwardly beveled and provided with thedownwardlyvertical pins 1), as shown and described.

DAVID EDWARD WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

O. F. UMBENow, ELI EVELAND. 

